Thursday, 3 November 2005: 1:30 PM-3:10 PM

International (Peabody Hotel)

Symposium (SYMG)

Innovations in the Teaching of Chemistry II

Session II. In so many colleges and universities, the teaching of chemistry, especially the lower-division service courses (general and organic) is done the way the instructors were taught many years ago: large lecture sections, small discussion sections taught by graduate teaching assistants, very low student engagement. In too often isolated circumstances, innovative pedagogy is introduced, including guided inquiry that replaces conventional lectures, peer-led workshop sessions instead of discussion sections, and the engagement of the student through the use of classroom response systems (“clickers”). In this symposium, instructors who have introduced these pedagogical innovations as well as others will describe them, and offer an assessment of their efficacies. Contributed oral presentations are invited. Organizers: Morton Hoffman (hoffman@bu.edu) and Cheryl Frech (cfrech@ucok.edu)
Organizers:Morton Z. Hoffman
Cheryl Baldwin Frech
Presiders:Morton Z. Hoffman
Cheryl Baldwin Frech
1:30 PM348Routine Crystallography - Accessible at the Undergraduate Level
Lee M. Daniels, Joseph D. Ferrara, Katsunari Sasaki
1:55 PM349Enhancing the Chemistry Lecture with Tablet PC Technology
James Ricky Cox
2:20 PM350Connecting the Dots Online: .lecture .lab .problem-solving .memorization .com
Edward L. Brown
2:45 PM351Team Learning in General Chemistry
Cheryl Baldwin Frech

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